Leadership Forum to Combat Modern Slavery
Establish a space for the exchange of ideas between national and international actors working on modern slavery and forced labor around the world and focusing on how businesses can prevent it in their supply chain or combat it with best practices
FAROL’s Demo Day
Today marks the end of the acceleration work that 17 startups from 11 different countries around the world have carried out in the last 6 months to boost their technological solutions to fight against Modern Slavery and Forced Labor.
Leadership Forum to Combat Modern Slavery
5th April 2022 – 4:00 pm (GMT +01:00)
“A space for the exchange of ideas between national and international innovation professionals, business representatives, civil society and experts on modern slavery and forced labor in the world and how businesses can prevent modern slavery in their supply chain or combat it with best practices leading the way for other entities.”
ABOUT
FAROL and United Way come together
The Spanish Foundation for Human Rights, United Way Spain and Partnerships for Humanity, with the sponsorship of United Way’s Center to Combat Human Trafficking, have brought together a group of experts to create the Leadership Forum to Combat Modern Slavery a space to exchange ideas and share best practices to combat MS and Forced Labor. In addition, the event seeks to raise funds for the LEPE (developed by United Way Spain) and FAROL projects.
SCHEDULE
5th April 2022 – 4:00 pm (GMT +01:00)
Participants in Farol’s acceleration program have spent the last 6 months working on business ideas and development of both tech-focused and community solutions to fight modern slavery and forced labor.
PARTICIPATING PROJECTS
Azaad Shehri
“A platform committed to ending child labor in Pakistan by creating a database of child labor and giving them access to opportunities.”
Bashpole Software
“We help NGO's advertise for, receive, and process tips about human trafficking, cross-reference the results with the web, and distribute them to law enforcement.”
Be My Protector
“We have an app that allows the public to report any suspicious activities or persons to us and in return we work with local law enforcement and other NGOs to deal with each case.”
Cemepia Africa
“Non-profit organisation grounded on the eradication of all forms of modern day slavery, illiteracy and alleviation of poverty through advocacy, skill acquisition, annual stakeholder’s symposium, scholarships, rehabilitation and reintegration of victims into the society”
EmporioCacao
“We are a purpose-driven company delivering a solution to Cacao and Chocolate producers alongside consumers directly focused on sustainability. We also fight against child and women's work that are exploited and poorly paid in the World of Cacao at a global level.”
Freedom Row
“Freedom Row’s AI disrupts an archaic business model of large, complex platforms, with no automation for modern slavery compliance. We take the basic and familiar modern slavery due diligence and assessment tools and use AI to automate processes and put in human intelligence in document analysis and modern slavery red-flag identification.”
HACE
“Drawing on existing data on these ten sectors and our domain knowledge, HACE goes beyond understanding where child labour is most likely to exist in a supply chain, focusing instead on how a child can be prevented from entering a harmful working situation in the first place.”
HRSC
“The Human Rights In YOUR Supply Chain® Certification is a globally recognized trademark logo for companies to display on their brand that shows their supply chain has been verified and has not violated any human rights.”
Liluye
“It's a social enterprise that combines fashion with compassion. We utilize hand-made, ethnic products to help end modern slavery, globally.”
My Choices Foundation
“We have built a vulnerability mapping tool that is helping us in identifying the most vulnerable villages, leading to targeted intervention.”
NEVARO
“We develop digital health solutions based on physiological performance classification, providing data-driven information, for mental health therapy and for healthcare services optimization.”
Pasos Libres
“Chain Breaker was created by Aleph Mind in 2020 at the DataJam Pasos Libres technological competition. Chain Breaker is a technological tool capable of extracting, formatting, loading, and analyzing information from several online sexual services platforms.”
Regenesys 3D
“Regenesys 3D is the perfect solution for getting 3D assets at scale. On top of that, we work with NGOs including shelters to identify and employ survivors of slavery as well at those at risk of exploitation (living in communities where trafficking or abuse is prevalent). We employ 250 staff of which 85% come from this target demographic.”
She Is My Heroine
“We support women to realize their full potential and power through profound personal development experiences. Proceeds enable our community to directly support our fight against the modern slave trade, human trafficking, and exploitation of women in the Philippines.”
TIMBY
“Whether you are monitoring climate change, human rights, illegal activities, aid distribution or factory grievances, TIMBY helps turn localized data into remedy with a suite of interconnected digital tools: reporting app, investigation dashboard & storytelling tool.”
Word Org
“We implement various programs at the grass root level for the comprehensive development of the underserved population in the communities.”
Association for youth development
A strong part of our work is focused on identifying forced labour and hidden explotaition, providing clear evidence of such, and enabling clients together with their suppliers to address the issues raised, and then to use our system to measure how effective the measures they have taken have been on workers working lives.
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